The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-08

city and going to the rooms and lodg-
ings OF those Who want it? If it does,
from my heart, GOD speed prohibition
But, mothers, it does not. Many.
many prohibition ~ home in Atlanta
has its sideb0ard. Search the houses
Of prohibition and you may find more
liquor than in those of the other side.
Do not think, mothers, speak rashly
or hastily. know this from exper-
fence. 1t is true, mothers, tEat your
son is led to some out-of-the-Way place;
it Is true that some young man who
marches in the prohibition ranks knows
his friend has a bottle in his room
where he can get his drink. And,
mothers, he marches III those ranks
what for?-to please you, mothers. to
do as you wish. Still, at the same time
he is deceiVing yoV. He is selling his
soul, he blights his honor.
Mothers, think of this well, and you
will say speak the truth. True, that
many young men, God bless them,
know not the taste Of liquor; but ali,
how many dol How many have been
born with that aceurSed thirst!
Can you, do you, prevent them drink
ing by closing the saloons and bar
rooms? Do you prevent them leading
your sOES wrong by this prohibition?
The young man of to-day is not the
young man Of forty years ago. He is
more progressive; he is more easy in
his manners Of life, and more suscepti,,
bic Of temptation. Mothers, guard
well your hearthstone-plead earnestly
with your sons to shun these secret
dens-to shun this mockery of prohi-
bition. With prohibition your plead
ing will be in vain. No one sees him
enter. No one has a suspicion of his
degradation, and deeper and deeper he
falls in his own estimation. He knows
and feels that he has deceived you; he
knows he is loSt-and beyond recall.
No friendly hand has been by to help.
The accursed darkness of the alleyway,
the darkened room, or the finely fur
niShed parlor of some wealthy friend
has infatuated him; has made him de-
ceive you, mothers; has made him dis
grace you, sisters, and still he has no
| shame, no regret, for he feels that no
one knows it. Mothers, can you con-
sistenly say 'God speech to such a
cause? Let the bar-roomS be open; let
them be in the most prominent places;
tear down their curtains from the win
dowS; let the sun shine in and reveal
every mans face before the bar.
With you, mothers, rests the tenn
perance question; with you, sisters,
rests its success. Danish the liquor
from your own house, high-priced
wines and all. Do not tempt YOUR
own or your neighbours son. Plead
with your boy, pray for your boy, and
God will bless you in your endeavor.
Be a true temperance woman. Be
true to your homes, your friends, and,
do that which you do not do. Do not
ask your SON to vote for prohibition,
knowing as you do that temptations
are Increased by its influences.
Let the bar-rOOms alone; leave them
/ in their proper place. Let your son
see them, let him know them, point
them out to him. The pride of his
manhood inculcated in him from child
| hood by fond mothers love is the
| dearest thing on earth to him, asserts
itself, and, fond mother, you can look
with Just pride On your boy. You can
feel with joy that your son has met the
temptation and has conqured it. You
know his danger. He knows it. He
sees the bar-rOOm and abhorS it. The
dens, back alley dungeons, and accused
blind tigers drive more young men to
ruin than all the bar-rooms that ever
existed. Those dens exist in every
state, city and town that has ever had
prohibition.
Be not deceived. Let your son vote
against prohibition. Let his manhood
| assert itself. Let him be man among
men. Our statesmen are the men
| who have been ''tried in the fire"
They have been put to the test, and
have stood the test, as will every young
man who is guided by mothers love
Be careful, good mother, how you
| advise your son. Teach him to avoid
politicians and their tricks. Teach
him to be a man of honor, integrity
and unwavering justice. His love for
you and the sign of danger easily seen
will save him from disgrace and make
grandmother, with hair rapidly turn
ing gray, can with joy and pleasure
coursing through every vein, exclaim,
my boy, you have done WE'LL" and as
the tears trickle down the aged lady's
face, that boy becomes her pride, her
| joy, and she feels and knows that an
allwise God is DER all God bless the
dear mothers in Atlanta. God grant
them to do that which is right to make
their cosy firesides happy and their
sons and daughters respected by all
men.
Long before the speech was concluded
and during it the enthusiasm was
| great-a committee composed of the
| leading cOlored men of the city came
| from the court house to escort Kit to
that meeting. The speech was con-
| Guided by the announcement that nc
| sales of medicine would be made that
night, and then, with the committee OF
escort, the little man with curly locks
went to the court house. His recep.
| ton in the temple of justice was
| equaled only by that given President
| Cleveland when he came to Atlanta
The people arose and yelled themselves
hoarSe.